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Chapter 1 Movement

She felt movement in the darkness that was her world. Just like so many times before but now it seemed different, hurried and panicked not slow and calculated like they usually came. She feared they would hurt her again but then the movement passed around her and left to be followed by a altogether different type of movement. Then the second one stopped. She felt some kind of vibration around her where she floated and felt something else move closer, so close she could just make out a form made up from the aura of this being. The aura told her the same the movement had plus some more. This being would not hurt her she knew and tried to reach out the first time in what seemed like an eternity of darkness. She did not get far before she was stopped by her bonds and fell silent again like so many times before the cocoon she floated in restrained her the moment she tried to move and kept her in the fetal position she was in. The aura she had perceived changed slightly like it was puzzled by the tiny bit of movement she had made. Then she felt more vibrations, one from a different source close to her and two more a bit further away responded.

Grey had not expected to find a chrysalis in the lair of these blasted Twisters of life. "Damn Twisters!" he thought, always trying to create new ways to destroy the harmony. He had seen his fair share of Twister created monstrosities but this one looked like none he had ever seen before. It looked ... well ... normal, just like a female of his own species albeit smaller then most woman of his kind. He gave a snarl of frustration and turned around the claws of his feet clacking on the rock floor of the dungeon. When he woke up from his musings he said "Well what do you guy's think?". His companions a two tailed fox and a otter looked up at the huge wolf that stood at the base of the chrysalis. The wolf, their leader was over 2 meters tall, with broad shoulders with a thick mane spilling over them, a broad chest and strong limbs rippling with muscles as he moved. His fur was mostly grey with no changes exept for his exotic deep red markings along his back and flanks. He was dressed only in a dark blue loincloth that reached to his knees, held up by a heavy belt with pockets to the sides. And held a huge sword that was even bigger then he was loosely thrown over a shoulder resting there with the long hilt. The swords name could not be pronounced by normal beings save daemonkind nor could it be held or lifted by one without being at least part demon. This was a daemonblade that had been in grey's family for ages, it held the spirit of a powerful demon that also was one of his ancestors. In ancient times it was not common for demons to walk the surface of Tarnill but it was seen as normal, these days it is rare to see one with daemonblood let alone a fullblood daemon.

Tsune, the two tailed fox was the first to answer. "think of what boss?" he grinned in the knowledge that calling grey boss annoyed the hell out of him and that he would gladly have skinned his snow white fur off of his wiry frame that was only half of the big wolf's height if they had not been on a mission. But still for his own safety he stepped in a shadow disappearing in it and then appeared on top of a bookshelf in a shadowed corner of the room they were in. "So handy to be a shadowmage." he tought and started digging through the contents.

Ti the otter that had until then been half hidden behind Tsune's tails trying to get those "Useless lumps of fur" as she called them out of her face. And said "Dunno? What exactly are we looking at?"she asked grey while she climbed his fur to get to his shoulder to get a better look. She was almost only one and a half quarter as tall as Tsune and for the most part looked like a regular otter only she and her kin could also walk straight up with ease. She was a bit eccentric for a otter. Normally otters do not have a obsession with explosives. Ti on the other hand was a genius with explosives and could create any kind of explosion or implosion imaginable with her home made bombs and gadgets. If something had to be blown up or disabled Ti was your girl for the job.

With a hint of annoyance in his voice and a look at Tsune that made him flee to a safer place he answered "Looks like a female wolf on first sight. But we got no way to know what those Twisters have done to her.". Ti climbed to Grey's shoulder to be able to look through the see through part in the side of the chrysalis that dominated the room they stood in. the walls were lined with shelves filled with books, notes, materials and a collection of beakers and other stuff you would expect to find in a lab. A table set to the side of the chrysalis lay full of notes speaking about the girl in it and here and there saying something about demonic soulshards or something. Grey having quickly read the notes with Ti still hanging from his shoulder looked up and saw Tsune hop off the bookshelves he was digging through and jump onto the table edge. To read the notes also before saying "This explains why there are so many books on demons in those shelves. Mainly on the greater ones anyway. And you might wanna do something about the pentagram you're standing halfway in. Looking down grey noticed the faint lines carved in the rock and lifted up his foot to place it outside the pentagram. Only this proved harder then he thought and had to pull hard to get his foot out of the pentagram. "Thought so." Tsune Said as he saw his friend struggle to take his foot out of the pentagram. "It is meant to immobilize daemons but is created clearly with only the contents of the chrysalis in mind. So you could get out of it with difficulty but she would not be able to move even if her life depended on it." he said pointing at the chrysalis. "How do you know this?" Grey asked. "The bookshelves held some notes on how they experimented with demonic tissue and soulshards in here there are multiple entries so I guess multiple daemon types were used to create her and lemme tell you it isn't pretty what they did to her after they grew her here." Tsune replied with audible anger in his voice. That's when Ti put one and one together and said "The Twisters have created a frikken daemonic Chimera." Terror audible in her voice.

As realisation struck home amongst Grey and his friends the Twister had made his way to the cages where he and his colleagues kept their latest batch of creatures they had "created". He smiled like a madman driven insane with panic he undid the magic that kept the cages closed and started laughing and screaming maniacally as the now released creatures set upon their creator mad with pain and warped instinct do devour and kill. These creatures, mere experiments to the Twisters who created them where each individually strong enough to level a small village in minutes so I leave it to your imagination what happened to the insane Twister that released them.

Tsune having the most sensitive hearing of the three and feeling magic being undone knew the twiser they were chasing was up to something. Looking up from the notes describing the workings of the pentagram and chrysalis he said "Oh shite" getting the attention of the other two or three if you count the occupant of the chrysalis. And went on "I hope you guys remember where that Twister went running of to but I can tell you he went straight to a place filled with a heck of a lot of lock spells an just undid them all." This proclamation was met with a double possible a triple "Awww bugger me sideways! The experiment cages!". After this outcry they heard screaming an laughing echoing through the hallway the Twister had disappeared in that was cut short by a lot more of screaming, growling, wailing, barking, screeching and a death gurgle of the late insane Twister. "Now we know what became of him." Grey said, Ti and Tsune nodded and all three got to work on the pentagram and chrysalis to release the one trapped within. This held the risk of releasing a potentially dangerous individual that was very possible mad with pain from being changed into something she was not and woud lash out at whatever was near. But in their line of work there were three main guidelines witch are to save Twister captives, exterminate Twisters and destroy their experiments and research. The person in the chrysalis was considered a captive and not a experiment because she did not display outward changes and until she proved them otherwise she would be seen as a person and treated as such.

She felt her bonds weakening and disappearing entirely but was still stuck in the chrysalis but that only lasted until the first presence teared open the chrysalis, spilling the content over the floor but gently catching her in his arms where she lay coughing up the fluid that the chrysalis was filled with and that sustained her for as long as she could remember. When she finally stopped coughing she opened her eyes and looked straight in Grey's. That moment seemed to last forever to them but was only an instant in the flow of time, in that instant a bond was formed never to be broken save by the fate of all things mortal. Meanwhile the creatures had reached them and had seen them, as she saw the twisted, warped and bloodsmeared creatures she let out a whimper and tried feebly to point but her body would not listen. Grey seeing the fear in her eyes connected the dot's mentally and yelled "Ti, Tsune defensive retreat! To the exit! Ti, did you finish planting those charges?!" while already running to the exit carrying his burden and new soulmate.

"Only those in the parts we cleared out already!" Ti responded to Grey as they ran. She leaped up grabbing on to Greys belt and Taking a vial out of her own ant throwing that over to the creatures chasing them and went "Oops!", "What oops?" Grey asked as the vial struck a creature and exploded in a fireball hell would be jealous of. "The frik?! That was next to a charge!" Tsune yelled and made for the nearest shadow to open a portal for his friends. Grey knowing Tsune could not operate a portal for long as it required a substantial amount of energy to even transport a single being and now he would have to do four. Just a s Grey reached Tsune the portal was open and Tsune was shaking on his legs already he did the only thing he could and grabbed tsune by the neck and dove through the portal that shut the instant they were through and the charge exploded a second later collapsing the tunnels of the Twister dungeon and a quarter of the mountain they where located in.

At the entrance to the now collapsing dungeon a shadowportal opened, spat out four figures and blinked out of existence. Ti was up first and running around excitedly and doing a happy dance while shouting "Did you see that blast! WOOHOOO! That was awesome, can we do it again? Oh! Oops! I think they may have to adjust the maps again." Grey just Groaned and uncurled from around the frightened female checking if she was okay. And Tsune just lay there, he was unconscious what happened often to mages who overexerted themselves. Grey pulled himself and the female he was holding up in sitting position and checked on Tsune. "Good." The thought as he was certain that Tsune was alright. Shifting his attention to Ti he shouted "Ti! Shut the bloody frig up would ya!" what shook Ti out of her happy dance she was still doing. Grinning like an imp planning mischief she said "Sorry Grey. I can't help it you know how I get when my stuff works better then intended.". Grey let out a sigh and was pretty sure Ti did it on purpose, not that he had any proof whatsoever. He returned his attention back to the female he was holding she seemed to have calmed down somewhat and was listerning to the exchange between Grey and Ti with something of amusement reflected in her eyes. And at the same time could feel her amusement like they shared some kind of empathy for each other. Studying her he told her "You are among friends here, I am called Grey by most and these are my companions and packmates Tsune and Ti. We will do everything in our power to keep you safe from Twisters and their ilk. May I ask who you are?". She tried to speak but fell in a coughing fit clearing her lungs from the mucous slime that had formed there during her stay in the chrysalis. As the coughing abated she said "I don't know, darkness all around me is all I knew until you came and ripped the darkness apart.".

Meanwhile Tsune was awakening with one hell of a headache to write home about due to magical overexertion. He was lucky this time, overreaching himself could cost a mage his life no matter how good he or she was. As he got up and started brushing off his clothes he heard grey say "You will need a name even if it is only until you remember your own." to this Tsune relied "How about Kaira? Sounds about right accounting for what she is.". Grey was about to rebuke Tsune for saying this but a giggle from her stopped him. The three of them looked at her as she said "I like it. Kaira sounds nice." and laughed again as het words made Tsune grin even wider then he was already doing and Ti was hopping up and down from exitement, eager to get to know the new girl in the group while grey just let out a sigh and looked at her smiling.